§ Statement of Purpose

The View from 1776 presents a framework to understand present-day issues from the viewpoint of the colonists who fought for American independence in 1776 and wrote the Constitution in 1787. Knowing and preserving those understandings, what might be called the unwritten constitution of our nation, is vital to preserving constitutional government. Without them, the bare words of the Constitution are just a Rorschach ink-blot that politicians, educators, and judges can interpret to mean anything they wish.

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, to the Officers of the First Brigade, Third Division, Massachusetts Militia, October 11, 1798.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Mr. Obama, Can You Spare a Dime

All of Obama’s supposed programs to jump start the economy and to revive employment have hammered down private business, the one and only source of real economic revival. It’s obvious that his aim is really the socialist-gospel push to wipe out capitalistic individualism and to make everybody a government employee, under the regulatory control of a self-appointed intellectual elite.

How else to explain his relentless obsession with “the rich” that, in this instance, blinds him to the damage he will do to the poor?